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Criterion
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Purposedifferent
Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together.When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.
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Timedifferent
90-180 min45-90 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-84-122-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
CoD Table, Prioritization SequencePerspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
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PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
FacilitationOptionsDecision
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
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Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Paper illustration of shared options, independently placed voting dots, and a highlighted shortlist.
Facilitation
Dot Voting